[clug] CMS usage in Canberra

Sam Couter sam at couter.id.au
Fri Sep 25 04:24:11 MDT 2009


Peter Barker <pbarker at barker.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
> That's a bit of a worry, really.  As I understand it, the GPL
> licence itself is Copyright by the FSF - you can see the Copyright
> notice at the top of the typical COPYING / LICENCE file.  You'd have
> to be careful creating something "not full GPL" by copying that
> licence file :-)

You can use the GNU GPL terms (modified or not) in your own license, but
not the preamble, and you can't call it the GPL, and there are a few
other minor conditions.

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#ModifyGPL

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